Deadline: May 6, 2013 Re-examining Fashion in Western Art, 1775-1975 College Art Association (CAA) February 12-15, 2014 Chicago Chair: Justine De Young, Harvard University, deyoung@fas.harvard.edu The recent “Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity” exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Art Institute of Chicago (2012-2013) foregrounded the importance of fashion to the Impressionists and … Continue reading
Category Archives: Calls for Papers
Call For Papers: SPLENDOR: SUMPTUARY ARTS IN THE HISPANIC MIDDLE AGES
VII JORNADAS COMPLUTENSES DE ARTE MEDIEVAL Faculty of Geography and History at Complutense University in Madrid – Casa de Velázquez – National Archaeological Museum, Madrid November 13, 14 and 15, 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS DEADLINE: June 1, 2013 Sessions I-II: The sumptuary arts in context: status, function and meaning Session III: Materiality and technology Session … Continue reading
CFP: Benjamin, Barthes, and Fashion
Call For Papers Deadline: April 1, 2013 The University of Manchester Conference Date: June 28, 2013 http://benjaminbarthesandfashion.tumblr.com/CFP Historian, philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin wrote on fashion’s relationship to modernity, commodity fetishism, history, and memory. In his unfinished The Arcades Project, the notes for a large section on Fashion reveal Benjamin’s desire to read the … Continue reading
CFP: Panel on Material Culture, Eastern Christianity, Ethnicity, and Race
Deadline for abstract: February 19, 2013 Anthropology of Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion November 23-26, 2013 in Baltimore, MD http://rsnonline.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1187&Itemid=1337 You are invited to submit a 250-word abstract proposal to a panel concerned with material culture, ethnicity, and race relations in Eastern Christianity for the Anthropology of Religion Group of the American … Continue reading
CFP: Fashioning Identities: Types, Customs, and Dress in a Global Context
Call For Papers Deadline: January 15, 2013 A Symposium at Hunter College City University of New York October 18-19, 2013 Chairs: Lynda Klich and Tara Zanardi, Dept. of Art & Art History http://www.hunter.cuny.edu/art Pictorial imagery of local types, traditions, and dress has a long history, dating back to the sixteenth century. From costume books and … Continue reading
Art, Anxiety, and Protest in the Edwardian Belle Époque Graduate Student Symposium
Call for Papers: Art, Anxiety, and Protest in the Edwardian Belle Époque Graduate Student Symposium Deadline: Jan 7, 2013 Yale Center for British Art New Haven, Connecticut, March 02, 2013 britishart.yale.edu “The belle époque, the long summer garden party of the Edwardian afternoon, when there was a lightness in the air, when “the fruit was … Continue reading
Performing Identity: The Relationship between Identity and Performance in Literature, Theatre and the Performing Arts
Performing Identity: The Relationship between Identity and Performance in Literature, Theatre and the Performing Arts The Euroacademia Global Forum of Critical Studies: Asking Big Questions Again CALL FOR PAPERS FOR NEW PANEL: This special section on Arts and Performance has been added to the conference. This session would work well for those interested in gender and … Continue reading
Winterthur Research Fellowship Program
Don’t miss out on these amazing opportunities to research and study the collections at Winterthur! Application Due Date January 15, 2013 Winterthur, a public museum, library, and garden supporting the advanced study of American art, culture, and history, announces its Research Fellowship Program for 2013-14. Winterthur offers short- and long-term fellowships open to academic, independent, … Continue reading
CFP: Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design
CFP Deadline: December 15, 2011 Conference Location: Boston, MA Conference Date: April 11-14, 2012 Fashion, Style, Appearance, Consumption & Design is concerned with all areas and aspects of style, fashion, clothing, design, and related trends, as well as appearances and consumption using and/or including: historical sources, manufacturing, aesthetics, marketing, branding, merchandising, retailing, psychological/ sociological aspects … Continue reading
Fashion Tales 2012 Outline and Call for Papers
Fashion Tales International Conference Milan, June 7-9 2012 Room Pio XI Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore Largo Gemelli 1 CFP Deadline: November 30, 2011 Since its beginnings in the middle of the XIX century, fashion has been narrated through multiple media, both visual as well as verbal, and for different purposes such as marketing and … Continue reading
Object of Fashion 